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I’ve been working on some crafts. I got a bunch of felt from mom when we were clearing out her house. Instead of getting rid of it I had to invent a very time consuming craft to use it up. Here are some dill blooms in my windowsil. With Bea gone and Brian often gone…
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Gourds courtesy of Jennifer’s very productive vines.
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Jennifer invited me to go up to Madison to watch Jenna sail over the weekend. Jennifer was helping out at the regatta – moving marks around on the course as the wind changed. I tagged along and thoroughly enjoyed myself. There’s Jenna above (in the front) coming out of a roll tack. It was a…
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I haven’t posted in quite a while – nothing out of the ordinary is happening. Just my usual way of noticing things outside and making things inside. I made a hat last week – a beret. Used a pattern from Tauko magazine and fabric that I got at the Wisconsin Wool & Sheep Festival. My…
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Brian and I took a trip to Munich to see how Bea is settling in. She’s been in her apartment going to classes and getting to know Munich for about three weeks. It was a great trip and we feel really proud of her. We arrived on Thursday and got to see her neighborhood which…
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No, not the government shutdown (that’s a coincidence) but the shut down of my original blog. The hosting company Typepad informed everyone a month ago that is would be shutting down on September 30, 2025. I had an inkling this was going to be happening so I transferred by blog to a new service called…
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Oh my goodness – we have been having a trial! Getting Bea into a German speaking school is no joke! A story: Last week we went into Chicago to an office that issues German Visas – it was a hail mary attempt to get over one of many humps. Bea went and talked to the…
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This summer I did lots of knitting in my backyard hammock. And now that summer is coming to an end I have finished my project. It’s a striped raglan sleeve sweater made out of lovely Brooklyn Tweed wool. I’m excited to be done and also a little sad to be done since I very much…
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Since school started the weather has been so pleasant.. so pleasant! I feel like we usually start the school year with some very hot days – not this year. So the weather has motivated me to do some fall-ish sewing. I made an interesting new pattern from Tauko Magazine. The pattern has really interesting pleats…
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The only good news around here is that Claire has started school and it’s been lovely outside. She seems to be off to a good start to her sophmore year. Here she is walking to her first day. Here’s a photo that Bea sent. The bad news, the thing that is making my stomach knot…
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